John Strong, Fox Sports Soccer Broadcaster

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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A rising star at age 31, John Strong talks to Grant about his journey from deciding he wanted as a kid to become a sports broadcaster to his current position as Fox Sports' lead play-by-play announcer for soccer. John discusses his influences, his process and his career goals as he looks toward a busy MLS season, U.S. World Cup qualifying and the promised land of the World Cup in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.1	Hi, I'm Grant Wall.
0:28.4	And welcome to the Planet Football Podcast,
0:30.7	where I go in depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.
0:35.7	On today's show, Fox Sports lead soccer play-by-play broadcaster John Strong joins me to talk about
0:41.8	his journey and his process as he has become the English
0:45.4	language voice of American soccer at the age of 31.
0:49.4	I could not be more proud of the work that we do at Fox and I stand the work that we do at Fox up against anything
0:56.0	anyone else has done whether it's an MLS broadcast our Champions League work whether it's
1:00.3	this upcoming World Cup and I can tell you we're going to blow the doors off.
1:04.4	All that and my thoughts on soccer coming up.
1:07.0	Take one.
1:09.6	Here we go with my three thoughts on soccer.
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